Euthanasia Should Not Be Legalized in America;

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Robert Woods Johnson Foundation is still making grants and supporting the work to change how Americans think about dying and how they die. They are funding the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization's "Caring Connections" program. This is the successor to the Euthanasia Society as we've seen.

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Through the years, I've had calls from families whose loved one was found upon autopsy to never have had any cancer. They were placed in hospice because a surgeon told them the patient had "inoperable cancer" and died supposedly from that (nonexistent) cancer there very soon. The cause of death listed on the death certificate? "Lung cancer" or something like that. The real cause of death? Hospice care. Not Cicely Saunders' hospice care. Not pro-life hospice care, but Florence Wald's and Ira Byock's and Timothy Quill's type of hospice. The type of "hospice care" the Euthanasia Society of America would endorse. The type of "hospice care" the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (the Euthanasia Society's successor organization) would approve and says nothing about today.

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I spoke with Dr. Lynn several years ago. Not knowing the history of her involvement and her approach, I thought she would be supportive of my concerns about patients being hastened to their death within hospice and palliative care settings. I really was naive, just as when I spoke with Dr. Byock. I knew they were leaders within the hospice movement and thought they would be receptive. Dr. Lynn was very courteous and respectful, patiently listening to me and even suggested that we might "do a study" to see what was going on, but nothing ever came of it. Why would she want to show that people were being hastened to their death using methods she has openly admitted occur widely in hospice and that she has proposed as suitable methods of bringing about the end of a patient's life?

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Note: the following is the account given by a daughter showing how her father was medically killed by a hospice, its medical director and its nurses: involuntary euthanasia. Names have been withheld to maintain confidentiality.

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Health care reform, rationing of health care for the elderly, the economic pressures of the federal and state budgets, the infiltration into hospice by the euthanasia zealots, ... all of this is hurting people. The federal government has never created a policy that would stop the fraud, waste and abuse that rob our treasury of funds needed to provide services. The U.S. Justice Department, though it professes to fight fraud, abuse and waste, is still controlled by political forces behind it. Elected Presidents and Congressmen will not tolerate the Justice Department seriously going after huge industries that contribute to their campaigns, even if they are committing fraud. We can see that the Justice Department's ineffective policies will continue, so those seeking to increase the funds available in the budget will look to hospice, palliative care and euthanasia as a way out.

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And yes, it is possible that we may see assisted-suicide, euthanasia and "third-way" killing legalized across the country if a return to traditional American values does not occur. I certainly hope not, but "why not?" say the utilitarians. If we don't affirm traditional values of reverence for life, anyone can be killed, anyone can commit suicide, so long as it is done through a government-approved agency. In Oregon, physician-assisted suicide is legal, yet anyone other than a physician aiding the suicide of a person commits a crime. As we know, patients may be involuntarily medically-killed as in the Netherlands, Belgium and elsewhere. Supposed "safeguards" built into the new laws written by euthanasia proponents will be violated with impunity and prosecutors will refuse to act, just as they refuse to prosecute medical killings in the end-of-life care arena (or elsewhere). And without enforcement, the practice of medical killing is applied to a wider group of victims.

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[Note: the following is the account given by a daughter showing how her mother was medically killed by a hospice, its medical director and its nurses: involuntary euthanasia. Names have been withheld to maintain confidentiality.]